Example sentences of "[verb] become a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of these successes , the 30 km/h zone has become a widely used measure throughout the Netherlands , though styles vary from place to place . |
| 2 | It is quite evident that in some areas farming has become a distinctly precarious occupation but , in exchanging the effects of the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy for the need to produce results in a rugby field , Hare may find that he has jumped out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 3 | So relatively accessible is it , that the Pic du Midi has become a thoroughly domesticated mountain ; as Belloc noted with distaste early this century , ‘ No other of the great mountains of Europe have been put more thoroughly in harness , ’ and since Belloc was there it has been harnessed more thoroughly still . |
| 4 | It has become a particularly popular query language for relational DBMS . |
| 5 | I was dubious at first because since her illness Jennifer has become a very private person and I do n't think she would have liked all the hubbub over in the other section ; but here — ’ she glanced round at the softly decorated walls , the strategically placed water-colours and the subdued lighting ‘ — here , I think , could well be the answer . ’ |
| 6 | Travelling late in the evening has become a very real worry for many nurses , as the incidence of violence rises . |
| 7 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 8 | The picture tries to portray Charles ‘ as he is at the moment — someone who cares about the world around him , somebody who has become a very caring person . |
| 9 | Recently percussion , both tuned and untuned , has become a very prominent feature of ‘ advanced ’ twentieth-century music , some scores requiring many skilled players . |
| 10 | The future seen by the two authors is one in which robotics has become a very important part of life . |
| 11 | Sedimentologists have now found a wide variety of applications for CL , and it has become a very important tool for petrographic analysis . |
| 12 | She has become a more equal partner in decision-making , in the enjoyment of sex , and in control over domestic resources . |
| 13 | In a somewhat different sense , involving to some extent the balance of rights between generations , the natural environment of human life and more generally the ‘ quality of life ’ , has become a more prominent issue in relation both to economic development and to population growth , through the rapidly expanding activities of ecology movements . |
| 14 | In the modern construction industry , however , quality control has become a more integral part of the building process , and our clerks of works were spending more of their time acting as assistant project managers . |
| 15 | Why is it only recently that Humberside has become a more attractive growth point for industries ? |
| 16 | However , SERPs has become a more marginal system as a result of recent changes in the legislation relating to pensions . |
| 17 | Traditionally , markets are held in the open air , often on a certain day , or days , of the week , but in many towns the market has become a more permanent set-up , incorporated into a modern shopping precinct . |
| 18 | In the 1980s stock-taking has become a more unfashionable activity and many libraries check their stock rarely or not at all — despite the opportunities for more streamlined stock-taking offered by automated stock records . |
| 19 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 20 | However , given that people 's personal valuation of environmental qualities ( such as the open countryside ) has tended to increase in proportion to the degree to which they are degraded through development , it is reasonable to assume that what may appear to be a net benefit to the present generation in a trade-off between the environment and a proposed development , is quite likely to be considered a net loss in retrospect by a future generation for whom the natural environment has become a more precious commodity . |
| 21 | The mortgage market has become a more competitive arena in the years since the early 1980s . |
| 22 | The family has become a more isolated unit , relatively separate from wider sets of kin , and functioning chiefly as a conjugal or nuclear unit . |
| 23 | This has meant that it has become a politically sensitive issue ; |
| 24 | In recent years mystery with history has become a fairly popular sub-genre of crime fiction . |
| 25 | In relation to videos , the BBFC has become a fully fledged State censorship Board , charged by law with determining whether material on video is " suitable for viewing in the home " and with determining whether particular cassettes can be sold or hired to children . |
| 26 | Some of this paternal anger is also rooted in the loss or " violation " of father 's " little girl " , and the recognition that she has become a sexually active person with a man of her own . |
| 27 | It has meant that it has been ‘ abstracted from … all use and practice ’ , and has become a purely speculative matter of ‘ high flights and abstractions ’ . |
| 28 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 29 | The fact that flat-dwelling in the public sector has become a relatively stigmatised form of housing in this country means that women dependent on public sector housing are caught in a design ‘ Catch 22 ’ : deviance is punished with badly designed and poorly maintained housing ; conformity is rewarded with better standard living conditions that nevertheless tend to reproduce patriarchal power relations . |
| 30 | Fashion areas are discrete and not democratized , by and large , but where it counts — in the discerning eye of the beholder — it has become an increasingly troublesome factor in determining who 's who . |